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I'm Rochelle Dancel, a producer, marketer and online creative.
These are little nuggets of stuff I'm working on, stuff I want to bookmark, places I am and things I'm eating. I make no apologies for the randomness.
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If you’re into comic books and cartoons - or even if you’re not but just love a great story - check out Guards of Dagmar from creator Tina Cesa Ward.
Earlier in the project’s life, Tina launched a Kickstarter campaign to produce Guards of Dagmar as a dramatic, adventure webseries. The campaign fell short of reaching its goal but, whilst many creators would’ve simply whinged about it and knocked it on the heard, Tina persisted and, for everyone’s viewing pleasure, Guards of Dagmar was released earlier this week as an online comic book.
Good stories just have to be told by great creators that will always find a way to tell them.
Check it out at GuardsOfDagmar.com
I was pleasantly surprised to receive this message via my website on this interview I gave to ABM Fans, the main fansite of award-winning web series, Anyone But Me. I contacted the sender of this message to ask for permission to post it, so here it is…
I am always super touched when people who’ve discovered our shows take the time to send us messages like this - thank you!
I’ve given interviews about Fletcher before, but rarely do I get to talk about what I love about other people’s shows, and as ABM grew up at the same time as Fletcher, I remember emailing with producers Susan Miller and Tina Cesa Ward and finding genuine support - something which we still do regarding our current projects to this day.
Being able to produce shows with characters that we’d love to see is a massive driver to working on our show in the webseries space, so I’m proud that we’re contributing to a culture that will hopefully lead to further diversity of characters on ‘regular tv’ - regardless of where in the world you happen to be.
And to answer your questions…
Yes, I was proudly born and raised in London, where I am now based, after stints in the US and Canada. Fletcher is made in Toronto, but I work on non-production stuff from the UK - God bless the internet!
And I do know the lovely Nicole Pacent; she is one of the most intelligent and articulate people I’ve ever met, and I am looking forward to working with her at some stage in the future :)
I should also note here that I am not Fletcher’s creator - that claim belongs to Regan Latimer; I have only had the privilege of working on the show, so any opportunities and success I’ve derived from proudly working on Fletcher I owe entirely to Regan. And yes, we (all) have other projects in the pipe, so watch this space!
I created this randomly after a Twitter conversation with Anthony Leung this morning.
In case you missed them yesterday, we dropped the Season 3 outtakes for the final season of Fletcher - I miss working on this already.
Watch: http://bjfletcherprivateeye.com/episodes/season-3-episodes/season-3-outtakes
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a screening of One Mile Away, followed by a Q & A with filmmaker Penny Woolcock. The documentary follows individuals from two rival gangs engaged in postcode wars in Birmingham as they try to forge a truce between the two sides. Made over two years, the film is unapologetic, eschews stereotypes, and is highly relevant.
I don’t know a filmmaker that doesn’t try to make something that will move or inspire their audience, so I was intrigued by Penny’s role in this film, as her presence was often integral in shaping the action and outcome of events involving the local Police and the interactions between the gang members.
If you’re in the UK, you can watch One Mile Away on Channel 4oD.
One Mile Away also has a supporting education programme; you can more about - and donate to support - the One Mile Away: The Road to Freedom tour.
Good Things Come To Those Who, “Go out and fucking earn it.”
“Those of you who have started a company know what I am talking about — the constant, daily upheaval of emotions. There are days when you don’t want to get out of bed, when you whimper without tears and then shake it all off because deep down you know you would rather be doing this than something else. Founders live to capture lightening in the bottle: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but we still keep trying. And that is the part the non-builders don’t get.
Building things that are different, inventing the future and creating a real business is a long and often very lonely slog. But you don’t hear about that. Instead what you get is a lot of babble about startups from so-called mentors, advisors and startup gurus. Peel away their sharkskin and you find they have never started a company, and they continue to live in the reflective glory of the company that once employed them. Others are the creation of social media, having struck a pose. And some are born consultants. They find willing listeners among a growing army of entrepreneurs who like enterprenuership as a lifestyle. Sorry guys, entrepreneurship isn’t a lifestyle, it is life.”
Om Malik / Dennis Crowley and the cycle of second-guessing (via msg)
(via spytap)
